LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A story of school staff in Jeffersonville trained and ready to save a student’s life after his heart stopped. Officers, doctors and the young boy’s father say without that quick thinking, this rare medical emergency could have ended in tragedy.

“I thought I was waking up for school or something. Then I realized, I’m not at home. I’m in a hospital,” Brendan Sullivan said.

Confused and connected to IV drips, but young Brendan Sullivan is alive.

“You can’t say ‘thank you’ enough for someone to save your child,” Brendan’s father, Steven Sullivan, said.

Steve Sullivan feared he’d lost Brendan by the time paramedics brought him to Norton Children’s Hospital downtown last Wednesday.

The cause of this potentially deadly condition was something Sullivan says he’d never

See Full Page